Open Access in IRAN ( 3 )

Hi
First I should notify that we have good iranian open access journals especially in english language like webology but i repeat again that open access movement and its goals isn`t showed and introduced clearly to the members of Iranian scientific socity.

what we ( Iranian Information Specialists ) can do to promote this movemement ?

In the world, this movemnt have a loud voice that is spred through various media. for example, this movement have one exclusive TV channel in Hotbird and many specialized serials and journals that publishing hot and scientific articles about this.
I think we i.e Iranian Information Specialists should:
1- write more and more about this movement in our public and specialized serials and journals.
2- stand up specialized seminars about this hot topic in our universities and other scientific centers.
3- criticize this movement with scientific language and show its real benifits and privileges .
4- write in our weblogs and websites about it.
5- help to establish more and more open access journals.

however we can do more ..............

you can help me and complete above list ..........

what is difference between "free access" and "open access"?

I wrote following text to complete Mr Zerehsaz's posts.

There seems to be a general misunderstanding that the aim of the Open Access movement is to make the scientific research literature free online. But there is a difference between "free access" and "open access".
This distinction was part of what motivated the Bethesda definition of Open Access Principles that we published in the first issue of Open Access Now (July 14, 2003). That definition clearly states that access to the information should be free, but in addition the work should be open to re-use and redistribution, and that it should be deposited immediately upon publication in a public online repository (such as Pub Med Central).
Publishers who offer free online access on their own websites still have a long way to go before their research articles can be considered Open Access. The benefits and promise of Open Access will only be realized when this distinction is clear in the minds of authors and publishers. Only then can the literature move from being ‘free’ to being truly ‘open’.

Open Access in IRAN ( 2 )

Hi

I wrote in my previous post that Open Access isn`t popular in Iran and academics don`t have tendancy to publish their articles in open access journals. The question is why ?

my response to this question is:

1- This movement and its goals and benefits is unknown in Iran yet.

2- The open access journals don`t developed as wish .

3- most of this kind of journals don`t get scientific credit ( That `s important factor ) from their science society then their authors also can`t get awards or privileges that others get from their article publishing in non open access scientific journals because The later one is supported with academics and core scientists.

4- authors generally concern about the copy right of their works.

5- and the authors get money ( what so ever little ) from the scientific journals for publishing their articles but open access journals generally don`t give any money to authors.

I `ll write more about this subject in my next posts............

Open Access in IRAN

Hi

I`d like to write in this weblog more about open access especially OA in IRAN. Open access is a new movement but not new idea or new goal. Human beings fight for freedom over their past history and always fight for remove the barriers and restrictions against the access to science and scientific outputs. This movement orginated from this old holy goal ....................

But in IRAN , Open Access is n`t popular especially among the academics and the members of science society .........

I`ll try to write about the reasons of this and other aspects of open access movement in IRAN in my next posts ................